Being in, essentially, a small briefcase doesn't help.
Projects are built in boxes. It prevents the electricity from zapping people.
Being in, essentially, a small briefcase doesn't help.
Projects are built in boxes. It prevents the electricity from zapping people.
Being in, essentially, a small briefcase doesn't help.
A briefcase? You think that's anything more than a pencil case? Look at the picture. See that human thumb in the lower left corner. Now do a simple comparison. That "briefcase" is a pencil case. Something thousands of kids carry to school every day. Now they're all potential bombs? Sheesh...
Being in, essentially, a small briefcase doesn't help.
If it's a bomb, then where's the explosives?
Since you are actually looking at the guts of a device.
Anyone here ever take electronics or work in electronics?
I have a dozen like that at home. And i'm pretty sure I have one like that in a cardboard box here at work.
The average schoolmarm doesn't know what explosives look like, I'd imagine. That green circuit board could be C4 for all they know.
Wires and circuits = whatever the worst thing a teacher can think of at the time. Someone's imagination got away from them (some over-reacting busybody), and caused this cluster****.
If it's a bomb, then where's the explosives?
Since you are actually looking at the guts of a device.
Anyone here ever take electronics or work in electronics?
I have a dozen like that at home. And i'm pretty sure I have one like that in a cardboard box here at work.
Obviously with the full story known it isn't a bomb and there aren't any. However at first glance I see where it could be suspicious and warrant further investigation. If you think you couldn't have explosives that aren't visible when the lid is open I could make some real surprises for you. Until you manipulated it, how do you know the liner doesn't conceal anything? The LED face?
Once again. If these things have been brought into the school for decades, then why the difference now?
Explosives have been placed in cell phones. Are we stopping students from bringing cells?
I would be suspicious of that device, personally, and I am trained and practiced at searching for IEDs. When I heard clock, I was not picturing that. Glad it got straightened out, but after seeing that it's more understandable.
Seeing the picture reinforces my second theory (the first being that this was simply a case of the schools being typically brain-dead):
The kid "invented" this in 20 minutes on the Sunday night before school. It was essentially an afterthought - not something one would take any particular pride in having accomplished. The kid's father is a well-known Muslim SJW. CAIR is quite active in the area. It is entirely possible that this was intended to be a set-up - a stunt designed and intended to elicit exactly the response that they got, in order to generate a bunch of faux outrage over perceived Islamophobia.